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...April 1940 a tired refugee and his wife got off a train at the Gare du Nord in Paris and proceeded to the sumptuous Hotel Crillon. They were Herr and Frau Thyssen. Emery Reves, president of Co-operation Publication Co. (international newspaper syndicate), persuaded him to write and publish his memoirs. Reves, Thyssen, a collaborator and a secretary went to Monte Carlo. Thyssen, says Reves, dictated three solid hours every day, then revised and approved the copy...
...Outing Club!" snarled the dyspeptic Vagabond as he sank into the most luxurious easy-chair of his sumptuous suite. "Why can't they leave the outing clubs at Dartmouth, where that sort of thing belongs?" His complexion was losing its summer tan, taking on the familiar city sallowness, and his eyes were red with Cambridge soot. This Cambridge Scrooge rested upon his recumbent spine, and his head nodded...
...cults of death), he scratched his hand. Shortly afterwards it became clear that Rilke had leukemia, a hideously painful disease of the white corpuscles. This century's great minstrel of death, who dreaded the very word, met it in complete integrity, refusing anesthetic, floated upon the sumptuous hospitality of friends whom he refused to see. "Except for the presence of the doctor and the nurse he died, as he had lived, alone, surrounded by every care and comfort, and suffering the tortures of the damned...
...National Baseball League, were adopted at last. Their orphanage dates back to 1935, when Boston Grocer Charles Francis Adams (not to be confused with onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin) took over controlling interest in the Boston Braves. Grocer Adams also owned Boston's sumptuous Suffolk Downs race track. That made him, in the eyes of Baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a greenbacked Satan. In governing baseball's affairs, Judge Landis has always had one rigid rule: no one connected with horse racing may own a major-league ball club...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...